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Love is the Answer

"Love is the answer." People have been saying this forever, and yet I don't think it's quite understood. Humanity has separated itself into two overarching categories: good and evil. Each individual human has been told they have a "good self" and a "bad self." Whether it's Christians saying they have an Adamic nature that needs to be saved and a Christian nature that is due to the blood of the Lamb or it's the Native American proverb about the two wolves inside of you fighting for dominance, most cultures have a concept of good and evil, right and wrong. This separated interpretation of the world leads us to cut ourselves in two. I am "good" when I help others, have enough faith, intercede regularly, eat kale, etc. I am "bad" when I choose my own comfort over that of another, eat hamburgers, or even do drugs or hurt someone deliberately. My actions shift constantly and so my two natures must be warring within me. N

Growth Mindset, Trauma, and Guilt

We have these terms in education called "growth mindset" and "fixed mindset." Applied to a classroom, growth mindset is basically the belief that every child can learn and be successful at any subject. Growth mindset doesn't mean that everyone learns to the same degree at the same time in the same way, but it does purport that all people can learn with enough time and effort. It posits that everyone can make some type of educational gain in your classroom in the time they are in that room. Fixed mindset, in contrast, says that people are born with certain talents and capabilities, and that there are just some things they won't be able to learn and some things at which they will automatically be successful. In other words, growth mindset gives a person onus. In fixed mindset, you have the luck of genetic draw and the things that happen to you. Traumas are things that happen to you. You don't ask for them. You don't want them. They are not your fau

Covenanted Relationships

Judge   not, that you be not judged.  For with what   judgment you judge, you will be judged;   and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you.    ~Matthew 7:1-2 This scripture is often interpreted in various ways. "Don't judge others at all because you're just as bad as they are." "Make sure you judge with righteous judgment according to the standard of Christ." "Whatever way you judge, you better be prepared to be judged." I would say that all of these are parts, but in greater context, the verse can be interpreted this way: Do not  interfere with the Covenanted relationship that another person has with YHWH. Do not trespass upon their Covenant by putting the measure (lines, authority, tenets) of your Covenant upon them. In other words, what's right for you is not necessarily right for others, and if you attempt to put your standards of righteousness--which you and YHWH worked out from the Beginning and walk in and write

Love is the Foundation and Relationship the Anchor Points

Revelation 3:20-22-- Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him and He with me. To him who overcomes I will grant to sit with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne. He who has an ear to hear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. I offer you a new way to see My world. As Our World. If you overcome old mindsets, Veils, and previous ways of thinking, you will join as One with Me with all accompanying rights and rulership even as I have joined My Father as One with all accompanying rights and rulership.  Ephesians 3:17-19-- that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in Love may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height--to know the Love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of YHWH. The foundation of all things is Lov